Have you ever wished Excel could just understand what you mean without endless tinkering with formulas or wrestling with messy data? That wish is no longer a distant dream. Microsoft’s new Excel AI ...

Microsoft Excel’s new COPILOT function lets users generate, summarize, and analyze data directly in spreadsheet cells using plain-language prompts. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft is building generative ...

Spreadsheet apps like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets are used worldwide to organize and analyze data, but getting the right information into them isn’t always straightforward. Businesses often need ...

What if your most tedious work tasks could be handled in seconds, leaving you free to focus on the big picture? Microsoft’s latest innovation, Excel’s AI-powered Agent Mode, promises to do just that.

The new ‘COPILOT’ function uses AI to generate summaries, tags, tables, and more based on a group of cells. The new ‘COPILOT’ function uses AI to generate summaries, tags, tables, and more based on a ...

Knowing how to harness the right AI tools for your particular role can be a big professional boon, but only if you do so carefully.

There's a new AI agent on the block for people who spend their waking hours inside spreadsheets. Navigate to Shortcut AI's website, and you'll find a page that looks almost exactly like an empty ...

At Microsoft Ignite 2025, Microsoft announced the introduction of dedicated Word, Excel, and PowerPoint agents within Microsoft 365 Copilot. These new agents will allow users to create documents, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lindsay Philips is a founder and change leader In 1979, a new tool called VisiCalc landed on finance desks. For the first time, ...

While AI has stormed into law firms and accounting practices with billion-dollar startups like Harvey leading the charge, the global consulting industry — a $250 billion behemoth — has remained ...

Anthropic is making its most aggressive push yet into the trillion-dollar financial services industry, unveiling a suite of tools that embed its Claude AI assistant directly into Microsoft Excel and ...